And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
NIV
And even those others [the fallen branches, Jews], if they do not persist in [clinging to] their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
AMP
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
KJV
God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah – how he appealed to God against Israel:
NIV
No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? [Ps. 94:14; I Kings 19.]AMP
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
KJV
As it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day."
NIV
As it is written, God gave them a spirit (an attitude) of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, [that has continued] down to this very day. [Deut. 29:4; Isa. 29:10.]AMP
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
KJV
And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them."
NIV
And David says, Let their table (their feasting, banqueting) become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a just retribution [rebounding like a boomerang upon them]; [Ps. 69:22.]AMP
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
KJV
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root
NIV
But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of the root and sap] of the olive tree
AMP
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
KJV
So they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you.
NIV
So they also now are being disobedient [when you are receiving mercy], that they in turn may one day, through the mercy you are enjoying, also receive mercy [that they may share the mercy which has been shown to you--through you as messengers of the Gospel to them].
AMP
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
KJV
